σωλήν

According to Beekes, the -ήν suffix renders a Pre-Greek source.

σωλήν • (sōlḗn) m (genitive σωλῆνος); third declension

1. channel, gutter, pipe
   • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 154
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.60
   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.526B
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 754
   1. syringe, squirt
      • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Galba 19
2. cylindrical box for keeping a broken limb straight
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Surgery 745, (Compare 763D, 766A)
3. grooved tile, Latin imbrex
   • Hesychius Σ
4. penis
   • Hesychius Σ
5. cavity of the spine
   • ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.180

• English: solen
• Greek: σωλήνας (solínas)
• Latin: sōlēn
• Hebrew: סִילוֹן (silón)

• “σωλήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σωλήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σωλήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN